March 2018

Doing Your Part – Help us Get Rid of fleas in Your Home Point out trouble spots. Where have you seen fleas or been bitten? Where do your pets sleep and play, inside and out? Have you seen a neighbor’s pet or wild animals such as opossums around your yard? Vacuum and tidy up. Before [...]

How to Avoid Attracting Pests When Using Mulch Around a Building Bark mulches, leaf litter, and similar organic materials around the foundation of a building can lead to pest problems. Mulch traps moisture which attracts insects and other pests, including termites. And not only can termites feed on many kinds of mulch, but mulch built [...]

How to Avoid Attracting Pests When Using Mulch Around a Buildingadmin2018-02-27T19:31:06+00:00

Mosquitoes...Know Your Enemy! Do you get mosquito bites around your home? You could be breeding them in your own backyard. Mosquitoes need water to breed. They especially like still and stagnant water in containers like old buckets and cans, even tires and boats. The female mosquito (the one that bites!) lays her eggs in the [...]

January 2018

Sanitation of Palm Tree Pruning Tools Palm tree diseases are often transmitted from palm to palm via leaf pruning tools. Equipment used to remove leaves from an infected palm (chainsaw, lopper, pruning shear, handsaw, etc.) will have fungal infested leaf material (wood dust, plant sap) on the blades. If the equipment is not cleaned and [...]

How To Help Ant Baits Work Don’t squash any of the foraging ants or block their path to and from the bait. Remember, you want them to carry the ant baits back to the colony. Don’t use any ant sprays or other pesticides around the baited area. Ants will avoid surfaces where chemicals have been [...]

November 2017

Commercial Pest Control Pests can affect businesses in a number of ways. One is simple destruction: termites can destroy your buildings, rats gnawing can damage structure and cause fires by gnawing electrical cords, and rodents can damage and destroy inventory both on shelves and in storage. The presence of pests can lead to regulatory action, [...]

Fruit Flies – Know Your Enemy Fruit flies are a common pest. All too common, some would say. They infest homes, restaurants, cafeterias, supermarkets, food processing plants, and breweries. What we call a fruit fly or vinegar fly; scientists call a Drosophila fly (pronounced "dro-soff-ill-ah). There are many different kinds, but all have similar looks [...]

October 2017

Signs You Have Termites Termites can cause enormous damage to your home. You may have an infestation and be completely unaware of it. How can you find out? First, you should be aware that there are some signs that might have a termite problem. Several signs are visual. An accumulation of small wings in the [...]

PRUNING PALMS PROPERLY A correctly fertilized and pruned palm should have a 360 degree round canopy of green fronds University of Florida specialists has observed that after our severe hurricane seasons of 2004 and 2005 "hurricane-cut" palms were more likely to have their crowns snapped off than those with fuller canopies. This may be because [...]

September 2017

Reduce Your Risk of Carpenter Ant Invasion... Carpenter ants are one of the more common ants found in houses. They are also difficult to control without professional help. They have the added impact of sometimes damaging the wood in your home. You can reduce your risk of carpenter ant attack by making your home less [...]